Result

The new board members are, from the Non-Novell side of the community Pascal Bleser and Bryen Yunashko and from the Novell side we have Henne Vogelsang and Federico Mena-Quintero. We are proud to announce that Michael Loeffler has been appointed by Novell as chairman of the new board. Being the candidates with the most votes in their category, Pascal and Henne already agreed to serve the board for the next two years. Bryen and Federico have been elected for one next year, hence the next election will take place about the same time next year.

You should use your application for a short introduction of yourself and probably a short manifesto/platform/program. In addition to using the above lists, it is recommended that you blog about your candidacy as this will reach a much wider audience of voters.

Phase 0: Application for an openSUSE membership

Note: Please apply as soon as possible to give the current board some time to review and approve/reject your application. Even if you meet the deadline, it may not be ensured that your openSUSE membership will be approved until just before the ballots open.

Phase 1: Nomination of second voters

During this phase each openSUSE member may appoint a second person to be eligible to vote (which is not a member). This person should be an active contributor of the openSUSE community and needs also an account at users.openSUSE.org.

Everyone in the electoral register for the openSUSE Board Election 2008 can appoint an additional voter from September, 25th till October, 9th 2008 (12 UTC) at the election pages of users.opensuse.org.

Phase 1: Campaign

During the campaign-phase there should be

plenty of blog entries on the upcoming election by the candidates

interviews with all candidates by the openSUSE news team

a moderated Q&A session on IRC

Phase 2: Election

All persons with voting right will be able to cast their votes using an comfortable frontend. Once a vote has been submitted it may not be changed afterwards. All votes are stored anonymously in the electronic system.